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"As Canadian as possible under the circumstances" was what Peter Gzowski's listeners decided in 1972.

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We, the undersigned, Concerned Allies of Transgender Canadians, call upon the Minister of Health to Recommend and support, within Cabinet, the exercise of the Government of Canada’s constitutional authority, including the power of disallowance under section 90 of the Constitution Act, 1867, to annul or repeal provincial legislation enacted in Alberta and Saskatchewan that restricts the rights of transgender and gender-diverse people and has been shielded from Charter scrutiny through the use of the notwithstanding clause, and to affirm the federal government’s responsibility to uphold Charter rights across Canada.

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The plan in Flin Flon, however, is different in scope. The closest comparable is a project in the remote Swedish town of Jukkasjärvi, where for the past four decades, a fully-outfitted hotel is built each winter out of ice from a nearby river.

On December 12, 2025, American commentator Tucker Carlson delivered a series of explicit, uninterrupted statements during a live interview with Matt Walsh that collectively amount to an open endorsement of coercive action against Canada. In the span of roughly three minutes, Carlson engaged in an unprecedented narrative assault on Canadian sovereignty and legitimacy, asserting that:

• Canada is “not even a country” – overtly delegitimizing Canada’s status as a sovereign nation.

• The Canadian government is murdering “tens of thousands” of citizens each year – accusing Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program of essentially mass state murder, including of children, and “harvesting the organs” from those killed.

• The U.S. should consider invading and occupying Canada on human rights grounds – explicitly framing a hypothetical military intervention as morally justified, and repeatedly insisting “I’m not joking even a tiny bit” to underline the seriousness of his advocacy.

• Canada is “way worse than Maduro” and even “worse than China” – claiming Canada’s alleged crimes outstrip those of Venezuela’s Maduro regime and the Chinese government, thus positioning Canada among the world’s most egregious human rights violators.

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Nine government bodies are getting new deputy ministers, including Intergovernmental Affairs, Justice, Finance, National Defence, Canadian Heritage, Health, Indigenous Services, Natural Resources, and Labour.

This shakeup was largely anticipated after a smaller shuffle earlier this summer, shortly after Privy Council Clerk Michael Sabia took the reins as the government’s top public servant.

Absent from the shuffle is any change to the leadership of the beleaguered Canada Revenue Agency, which recently underwent a 100-day sprint to improve services after reports of extensive call wait times, unanswered calls, and other service-related issues.

This latest deputy minister shuffle puts fresh faces in key roles responsible for carrying out Prime Minister Mark Carney’s (Nepean, Ont.) priorities, including defence, justice, and finance.

Marie-Josée Hogue, a puisne judge of the Court of Appeal of Québec, is tapped to be deputy minister of justice and deputy attorney general. She previously lead the Foreign Interference Commission, which studied interference in Canada's 2019 and 2021 elections by China, Russia and other foreign states.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney has begun to lay out publicly what he sees as boundaries when dealing with China, as his government wades into a new relationship with the economic giant.

Carney, who earlier this year called China one of Canada's biggest security threats, has more recently spoken openly about resetting the relationship with Beijing as the Liberal government seeks more trading partners in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war.

"The question is how deep is the relationship and how clear are the guardrails around that relationship," he said.

"There are areas, artificial intelligence, critical minerals, defence, where clearly the security threats are such that we would not have a deep relationship with China in those areas."

Photos of a wooden box, allegedly used for student "time outs" at an elementary school in Akwesasne, drew shock and anger from parents this week and have prompted an investigation by the school district.

Akwesasne Mohawk Territory, near Cornwall, Ont., straddles the Ontario, Quebec and New York state border. St. Regis Mohawk School is a kindergarten to Grade 5 school on the U.S. side, and is one of four schools in the Salmon River Central School District.

Chrissy Jacobs, a resident of Akwesasne and a former Salmon River Central School District board member, posted the photos to Facebook Monday after they were sent to her by a teacher who’d recently resigned from the school.

Just in time for the holidays, HMCS Max Bernays returned to Esquimalt after a historic four month deployment.